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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women 1
6. 2. “The Truest Kind of Breeding”: Prescriptive Literature in the Early South 34
7. 3. Religion, Voice, and Authority 70
8. 4. Reading Novels in the South 105
9. 5. Reading, Race, and Writing 139
10. Conclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority 185
11. Postscript 195
12. Abbreviations 199
13. Notes 201
14. Index 259